Women's Collection

College Library's Women's Collection was established in 1975 when librarians worked with the faculty of the new Women's Studies Department to create a Women's Reading Area and collection. Today the collection provides books and videos emphasizing current women's issues of interest to undergraduates, including the students in Women's Studies courses.

The collection includes titles about women's health concerns and topics such as abortion, women and welfare, body image and women related family issues like childcare. Works by and about women authors, artists and musicians are collected as anthologies or criticism identified as pertaining to women's or feminist issues. Books by or about individuals in the literary and fine arts are only selected if they are considered seminal works. Critically acclaimed lesbian fiction is included in the collection as well.

Books on all these topics, which would be scattered throughout the library collection, are presented here in the Women's Collection to encourage browsing by undergraduates seeking to expand their appreciation of women's lives and experiences.

The collection is in Room 2191, which is located on the west side of the second floor at College Library.

Click to see a pop-up map of the second floor.

Featured Books

How to suppress women's writing
Russ, Joanna
Call #: PN471 R87 1983
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
Walker, Alice
Call #: PS3573 A425 Z467 2004
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Call #: PR115 G5 2000
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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New woman reader : fiction, articles, and drama of the 1890s
None
Call #: PR1111 F45 N48 2001
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Other sexes : rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson
Harris, Andrea L.
Call #: PR888 F45 H37 2000
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Room of one's own
Woolf, Virginia.
Call #: PR6045 O72 Z474 2005
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Rooms of our own
Gubar, Susan
Call #: HQ1190 G82 2006
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Other sexes : rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson
Harris, Andrea L.
Call #: PR888 F45 H37 2000
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Shakespeare's sisters : feminist essays on women poets
None
Call #: PS310 W64 S5
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Sleeping with one eye open : women writers and the art of survival
None
Call #: PS151 S56 1999
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color
None
Call #: PS509 F44 T5 2002
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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Twentieth-century women novelists : feminist theory into practice
Watkins, Susan
Call #: PR888 F45 W38 2001
College Library Women's Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3250
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February: Women of Words

	The Aunt Lute anthology of U.S. women writers Edited by Lisa Maria Hogeland and Mary Klages. College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS508 W7 A96 2004
	Baghdad burning: girl blog from Iraq (vols. 1 and 2) By Riverbend; introduction by James Ridgeway College Library Women's Collection Call No: DS79.76 R587 2005 DS79.76 R587 2006
	Before they could vote: American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 Edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1412 B44 2006
	Bobbed hair and bathtub gin: writers running wild in the Twenties By Marion Meade College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS151 M43 2005
	A bookshelf of our own: works that changed women's lives By Deborah G. Felder College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN56.5 W64 F312 2005
	By herself: women reclaim poetry Edited by Molly McQuade College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS305 B9 2000
	Daughters of earth: feminist science fiction in the twentieth century Edited by Justine Larbalestier College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS648 S3 D38 2006
	Feminist popular fiction By Merja Makinen College Library Women's Collection Call No: PR888 F45 M34 2001
	From megaphones to microphones: speeches of American women, 1920-1960 By Sandra J. Sarkela, Susan Mallon Ross, and Margaret A. Lowe. College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS663 W65 F76 2003
	Intimate reading: the contemporary women's memoir By Janet Mason Ellerby College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS366 A88 E44 2001
	Journalistas: 100 years of the best writing and reporting by women journalists Edited by Eleanor Mills with Kira Cochrane College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN4724 C87 2005
	A moment on the edge: 100 years of crime stories by women edited by Elizabeth George College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN6120.95 D45 C75 2005
	Partners in wonder: women and the birth of science fiction, 1926-1965 By Eric Leif Davin College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS374 A35 D38 2006
	Romancing God: evangelical women and inspirational fiction By Lynn S. Neal College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS374 C48 N43 2006
	Scheherazade's legacy: Arab and Arab American women on writing Edited by Susan Muaddi Darraj; foreword by Barbara Nimri Aziz College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS153 A73 S34 2004
	Sisters of the Earth: women's prose and poetry about nature Edited and with a new preface by Lorraine Anderson College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS509 N3 S57 2003
	Things of the spirit: women writers constructing spirituality Edited by Kristina K. Groover College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN56 S7 T48 2004
	This is not chick lit: original stories by America�s best women writers Edited by Elizabeth Merrick College Library Women's Collection Call No: PS647 W6 T5 2006
	Wall tappings: an international anthology of women's prison writings, 200 to the present Edited by Judith A. Scheffler; foreword by Tracy Huling College Library Women's Collection Call No: HV6245 W345 2002
	Women in print: essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand; foreword by Elizabeth Long College Library Women's Collection Call No: Z473 W68 2006
	Women of words: a personal introduction to more than forty important writers Edited by Janet Bukovinsky Teacher; portraits by Jenny Powell College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN6069 W65 W625 2002
	Women's letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the present Edited by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen J. Adler College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1410 W6845 2005
	Women write: a mosaic of women's voices in fiction, poetry, memoir, and essay Edited and with an introduction by Susan Cahill College Library Women's Collection Call No: PR1110 W6 W658 2004
	Word: on being a [woman] writer Edited by Jocelyn Burrell; foreword by Suheir Hammad College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN471 W65 2004

	November- January: Women in the World
	African women: a modern history By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; translated by Beth Gillian Raps College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1787 C6613 1997
	Beyond Beijing: the international women�s movement videorecording and handbook Video produced and directed by Salome Chasnoff; Handbook edited by Cheryl Miller College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1154 B496 1996
	Beyond the border: a new age in Latin American women�s fiction Edited by Nora Erro-Peralta and Caridad Silva College Library Women's Collection Call No: PQ7087 E5 P8413 2000
	Cross currents in the international women's movement, 1848-1948 By Patricia Ward D’Itri College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1154 D55 1999
	Daughters of Afghanistan [videorecording] Director, Robin Benger; producer, Barbara Barde; writers, Sally Armstrong, Robin Benger College Library Women's Collection Call No: DS371.4 D38 2004
	Feminism in modern Japan: citizenship, embodiment, and sexuality By Vera Mackie College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1762 M326 2003
	Fire from the Andes: short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru Edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard College Library Women's Collection Call No: PQ7816 F57 1998
	Holding up half the sky: Chinese women past, present, and future Edited by Tao Jie, Zheng Bijun, and Shirley L. Mow; translated by Amy Russell College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1767 H643 2004
	The making of modern woman: Europe, 1789-1918 By Lynn Abrams College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1587 A27 2002
	My kind of place: travel stories from a woman who�s been everywhere By Susan Orlean College Library Women's Collection Call No: G465 O75 2004
	No place for a lady: tales of adventurous women travelers By Barbara Hodgson College Library Women's Collection Call No: G465 H65 2002
	Sisterhood is global: the international women�s movement anthology Compiled, edited, introduced, and with a new preface by Robin Morgan College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1154 S54 1996
	Solitary travelers: nineteenth-century women�s travel narratives and the scientific vocation By Lila Marz Harper College Library Women's Collection Call No: PR788 T72 H37 2001
	Voices from Iran: the changing lives of Iranian women By Mahnaz Kousha College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1735.2 K68 2002
	A woman�s Europe: true stories Edited by Marybeth Bond College Library Women's Collection Call No: D907 W66 2004
	Women for Afghan women: shattering myths and claiming the future Eddited by Sunita Mehta, with assistance from Esther Hyneman, Batya Swift Yasgur, and Andrea Labis College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1735.6 W654 2002
	Women in Asia: tradition, modernity, and globalisation Edited by Louise Edwards & Mina Roces College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1240.5 A78 W63 2000
	Women writing Africa: the southern region Edited by M.J. Daymond ... [et al.] College Library Women's Collection Call No: PR9345 W66 2003
	Women writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel Edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw College Library Women's Collection Call No: PL8014 W372 W66 2005
	Women�s voices across musical worlds Edited by Jane A. Bernstein College Library Women's Collection Call No: ML82 W697 2004
	Fall 2006: Think Campaign
	Action chicks: new images of tough women in popular culture Edited by Sherrie A. Inness College Library Women's Collection Call No: P94.5 W652 U614 2004
	Bitches, bimbos, and ballbreakers: the Guerrilla Girls� illustrated guide to female stereotypes By the Guerrilla Girls College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1206 B444 2003
	Catching a wave: reclaiming feminism for the 21st century Edited by Rory Dicker & Alison Piepmeier College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1426 C284 2003
	Female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture By Ariel Levy College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1155 L48 2005
	For love of country: confronting rape and sexual harassment in the U.S. military By T.S. Nelson College Library Women's Collection Call No: UB418 W65 N45 2002
	The girl on the magazine cover: the origins of visual stereotypes in American mass media By Carolyn Kitch College Library Women's Collection Call No: P94.5 W652 U655 2001
	The lesbian history sourcebook : love and sex between women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 Compiled by Alison Oram and Annmarie Turnbull College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ75.6 G7 L47 2001
	The literature of lesbianism: a historical anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall Edited by Terry Castle College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN6071 L47 L58 2003
	One woman, one vote [videorecording] Aan Educational Film Center production for the American Experience; written and produced by Ruth Pollak; co-producer and writer, Felicia M. Widmann College Library Women's Collection Call No: JK1896 O54 2005
	Rape on prime time: television, masculinity, and sexual violence By Lisa M. Cuklanz College Library Women's Collection Call No: HV6250.4 W65 C85 2000
	The rise of the new woman: the women�s movement in America, 1875-1930 By Jean V. Matthews College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1419 M38 2003
	Shattering the stereotypes: Muslim women speak out Edited by Fawzia Afzal-Khan; foreword by Nawal el Saadawi College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1170 S463 2005
	Sisters: the lives of America�s suffragists By Jean H. Baker College Library Women's Collection Call No: JK1896 B35 2005
	The strength to resist: media�s impact on women & girls [videorecording] Cambridge Documentary Films; directed and produced by Margaret Lazarus [and] Renner Wunderlich College Library Women's Collection Call No: HF5827.85 S774 2001
	The warrior women of television: a feminist cultural analysis of the new female body in popular media By Dawn Heinecken College Library Women's Collection Call No: PN1992.8 W65 H45 2003
	When and where I enter: the impact of Black women on race and sex in America By Paula Giddings College Library Women's Collection Call No: E185.86 G49 2001
	Women�s rights By Sharon Hartman Strom College Library Women's Collection Call No: HQ1236.5 U6 S77 2003
	Women�s lives, men�s laws By Catharine A. MacKinnon College Library Women's Collection Call No: KF478 M26 2005

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	Women & money : owning the power to control your destiny Orman, Suze. Call No: HG181 O75 2010 Find in MadCat
	Her place at the table : a woman's guide to negotiating five key challenges to leadership success Kolb, Deborah M. Call No: HD6054.3 K65 2010 Find in MadCat
	Drinking : a love story Knapp, Caroline. Call No: HV5293 K53 A3 2005 Find in MadCat
	Take back the night : women on pornography None Call No: HQ471 T27 1980b Find in MadCat
	Creating Rosie the Riveter : class, gender, and propaganda during World War II Honey, Maureen Call No: HQ1420 H66 1984 Find in MadCat
	Time use of mothers in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century Connelly, Rachel. Call No: HQ759 C7245 2010 Find in MadCat
	Long loneliness : the autobiography of the legendary Catholic social activist Dorothy Day Day, Dorothy. Call No: BX4668 D3 A33 1997b Find in MadCat
	Singular woman : the untold story of Barack Obama's mother Scott, Janny. Call No: E909 D86 S36 2011 Find in MadCat
	Killing us softly 4 advertising's image of women None Call No: HF5822 K542 2010 Find in MadCat
	Price of sex None Call No: HQ281 P75 2011 Find in MadCat
	Fighting the silence sexual violence against women in Congo None Call No: HV6569 C74 F5 2007 Find in MadCat
	Weapon of war confession of rape in Congo None Call No: HV6569 C75 W43 2009 Find in MadCat
	Sarabah None Call No: GN484 S27 2011 Find in MadCat
	Made in India None Call No: HQ759.5 M34 2010 Find in MadCat
	Latching on a film None Call No: RJ216 L38 2010 Find in MadCat
	Just a housewife : the rise and fall of domesticity in America Matthews, Glenna. Call No: HQ1410 M38 1989 Find in MadCat
	Light of the home : an intimate view of the lives of women in Victorian America Green, Harvey Call No: HQ1419 G73 2003 Find in MadCat
	Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann). Call No: E444 J17 A3 2010 Find in MadCat
	Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann). Call No: E444 J17 A3 2008 Find in MadCat
	When and where I enter : the impact of Black women on race and sex in America Giddings, Paula. Call No: E185.86 G49 2006 Find in MadCat
	Defending pornography : free speech, sex, and the fight for women's rights Strossen, Nadine. Call No: HQ472 U6 S87 2000 Find in MadCat
	Willing and unable : doctors' constraints in abortion care Freedman, Lori Call No: HQ767.5 U5 F745 2010 Find in MadCat
	Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman Shostak, Marjorie Call No: DT797 N57 S53 2000 Find in MadCat
	Feminism and religion : an introduction Gross, Rita M. Call No: BL458 G76 1996 Find in MadCat
	Within the plantation household : Black and White women of the Old South Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Call No: HQ1438 A13 F69 1988 Find in MadCat

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